There's A Mail Museum At The Smithsonian Now

OTHER NEWS TO NOTE - WASHINGTON

July 31, 1993

Mail, an experience and bond shared by Americans, is celebrated in a new Smithsonian museum that opened Friday. ''Letters are bridges, not just between distant places but between generations,'' Barber Conable of the Smithsonian board of Regents said at the museum opening. Postal history is the focus of the museum, located in the former Washington City Post Office adjacent to Union Station. The new $15.4 million facility holds one of the world's largest collections of rare and unusual stamps. Early airmail planes, a stagecoach, a reproduction of a railway mail car, a 1920s Model T Ford with skis on the front for snowy deliveries and sundry other modes of moving the mail are also featured.